Photographing Quotes

112 Photographing quotes by 76 unique authors

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the… — Seymour Hersh
I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but… — Tim Walker
Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the surface of the… — James Balog
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. — Nigel Dennis
When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I… — Josef Koudelka
I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory… — Richard Avedon
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures… — Sebastiao Salgado
When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend… — Sebastiao Salgado
...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things... — Sebastiao Salgado
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. — Dorothea Lange
For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things… — Robert Bresson
I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in… — Helmut Newton
I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as… — Nicole Eggert
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right… — Helmut Newton
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. — James Nachtwey
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it. — Duane Michals
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature… — Hiroshi Sugimoto
Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces… — Michael Kenna
Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my… — Joyce Tenneson
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way… — Richard Avedon
When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it… — Mary Ellen Mark
Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models… — Ryan McGinley
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. — Eve Arnold

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